JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — A Trailer Bridge barge looted off the coast of the Bahamas is now back in Jacksonville, ending a chaotic nine-day ordeal that left nearly every container on board broken into, stripped, or dumped into the ocean.

What began as a mechanical failure has spiraled into a damaging cargo loss for Trailer Bridge.

The trouble began on November 11, when the tug Southern Dawn suffered a mechanical failure during severe weather en route to Puerto Rico.

The tow wire snapped, leaving the Brooklyn Bridge barge adrift before it grounded on a reef roughly three miles off the Bahamas.

With no power, the stranded barge quickly caught the attention of locals.

By the evening of November 13, Trailer Bridge alerted the U.S. Coast Guard and U.S. Navy that approximately 50 looters w

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